Usability Quote of the Day

February 9, 2012

Most people who encounter computer-based automation at work do not choose the software with which they work, and have comparatively little control over when and how they do what they do. For them, the use of computers can be an oppressive experience, rather than a liberating one. -- Sarah Kuhn, Bringing Design to Software, edited by Terry Winograd, 1996    (via interaction-design.org)

Monday, December 12, 2005

Intranet Portals and Scent are Made for Each Other

The relationship between Information Scent and Intranets ...

"Organizations are becoming increasingly dependent on their intranet -- the internal web-based network they use to communicate and function. Many organizations are finding the content and functions available growing at a voracious rate.

In some cases, we're seeing the amount of content available growing at more than a gigabyte each month. How does the intranet designer ensure that employees can productively find the important content and functions, with minimum frustration, with a network growing that quickly? Many designers are turning to Portals -- a set of pages that act as a launch point for every dive into the intranet's ocean of content.

On most intranets we've studied, employees start their intranet session by bringing up the portal in their browser. From their, they drill into the institution's network until they find what they want.

Portals are unique to intranets. The Internet doesn't have portal pages."   continued ...   (Via uie/Jared Spool)

Information Scent - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Information Scent.

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